--bilby, thanks for those. A few of them I haven't heard of, but a few of the others I can't believe I forgot! (Rice milk can be SOOO good). Nutmeat sounds gross, can't bring myself to add it, even though it's harmless.

Some things I eat, and probably didn't (or ate much less of) back in the days when I was vegetarian rather than vegan: sprouts, rice milk, sauerkraut, miso, soyaroni, nutmeat, agar jelly, vitari (frozen fruit dessert). Probably a few brand names in there.Tasty list! :-)

Oh, I don't mean to be insensitive. Just trying to have fun with words.

But I wasn't joking about my fondness for vegans; they, like so many others with restrictive diets, have ushered all sorts of tasty alternative foods (if also perhaps a few food alternatives) into our lives.

As for pickling, I've found it does a lot of people good. And I love the word: pickle, pickled, pickler, pickling, picklesque.

I'm trying to keep my list to just the stuff omnivores generally DON'T eat. Well, I threw in "fruits" and "vegetables" because they seemed necessary. And then I added Oreos because they are a surprising vegan treat.